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Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12465 / 2

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12465 / 2
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, red
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Complete.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) Complete.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting Partly unsteady and elusive handwriting.
Comments on Text Layout Very wide line pitch. The text is placed onto the upper half of the surface of the potsherd, with broad lateral margins and on top. The lower half remains uninscribed.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 2 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 22 0
Column Height (in mm) 30 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 22 x 30 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for the price of oil
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Pachnoumis, son of Phibis, is confirmed by Petemestous, son of Patous, of having paid the price of oil for the 20th regnal year Thoth, in an amount of ⅓ kite.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ı͗n Pa-H̱nm sꜣPꜣ-hbꜣ ḥḏ qd ⅓ n nḥ
2 n ḥsb.t 20.t ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t n-ḏr.t Pꜣ-ḏı͗-I͗mn-nsw-tꜣ.wy sꜣ Pa-tꜣ.wy
convex
1Thus has brought Pachnoumis, son of Phibis, ⅓ (silver) kite (for) the price of oil
2(for) the 20th regnal year, Thoth. Issued by Petemestous, son of Patous.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
6715 man Pachnoumis, son of Phibis Pa-H̱nm sꜢ PꜢ-hbꜢ pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios III Euergetes 20 Thoth -228 October 15 BCE -228 November 13 BCE Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. Internal dating, without name of the ruler;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 307628
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 81188
Author Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307628 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12465 / 2), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography).